Women Born In The 1980s

"You're entitled to your own opinion but you cannot be entitled to your own facts."

"Technology was never seen as a way to employ people. The more the President talks about it, the more it changes the mindset of people."

"In Kenya, we have the highest per capita use of digital financial services in the world,"

"It’s about how am I applying this technology to my everyday life based on the infrastructure that I currently have."

"What we need to do is put measures in place to protect human dignity and human lives, but on the other hand, allow for innovation to go and be built."

"It is a very hard truth for Africans to think about is who is going to take over after I have left. You always have to think about that. I don’t want my work to leave with me. I want it to stay and continue impacting"

"Africa showed the world how to use the mobile phone; (…) and we are going to show the world how AI can actually improve people’s lives. Don’t be left behind in this journey."

"For every 3,500 people, there’s one doctor... With AI, there is the potential to provide better healthcare services, such as first-line diagnoses through mobile platforms. If I can take a photo of my disease (…) and send it to a bot that uses AI to provide me with a potential diagnosis, even at 80% accuracy, it’s better than no diagnosis at all."

"Sovereignty means that I need to be in charge of my destiny and able to control my future. This involves understanding the context in which you’re operating and not allowing others to define that context for you."

"...as AI evolves, the responsibility to regulate and innovate must be handled with extreme care. We don’t know where this technology is taking us"

"The fact that you are not there does not mean the work is not important. The work needs to continue and outlive you."

"When AI becomes practical, when it’s not just a hype word, that’s when we will truly see the impact of this technology on our continent."

"It’s Africa’s moment to take that leap, seeing AI as a tool to elevate human flourishing in Africa, providing opportunities for development that have long been out of reach."

"Mahirap (It's difficult). If you don't have education, you have nothing to fall back on. Ano'ng magiging trabaho mo (What will be your job?) If you don't have a degree, what job will they give you?"

"Ex ko talaga (Really my ex). I needed to get away from the situation in order for me to grow."

"At your lowest point, the trickiest thing you can do is give in to depression and want to finish everything,” she reflected. “Have strong faith."

"I think its halfway knowing who you are. Always remember to be humble."

"Self-reflection, na-practice ko siya and I realized, kailangan ko na yata mag-aral.. (I practiced it and I realized, I guess I need to study)"

"The accusation of self-promotions falls flat in the face of the fact that … I’m not running for any position."

"I learned through experience."

"Take full accountability, learn well & finish strong."

"Every year I hope to get better, be more real and more wise."

"There is a big and beautiful reason why you were created, and I hope every woman will do their best to find out what that is and live according to her purpose."

"Find your purpose. From there, all the right dreams will follow."

"There’s really a process, and don’t be too hard on yourself, Remember, you are not alone and there is always a way out."

"Every day is a chance you get to change that one mistake, that bad choices or that deep regret you felt when you believed to have ultimately made the worst decision of your life."

"The pain & shame of a mistake can be the first step towards the best & wisest version of yourself."

"Life is a marathon, not a sprint."

"Growing older, there’s also value in that as well. Older women have a responsibility to teach the younger women on what mistakes they can avoid so that each generation, we become better and better."

"I’m not too sure if I’ve really transformed, but definitely I’m slowly learning how to be the person I was created to be."

"I have this passion to help women heal, get over bitterness, find accountability."

"Slowly I am shifting from getting my value from myself to getting my value from The One who created me."

"I want to represent women who balance ambition with real-life challenges, who continue growing no matter what life puts on their shoulders."

"It's accumulation of your little choices that were hurting God and hurting yourself in the process."

"I’ve let go of the perception that the younger you are, you’re more valuable and you’ll have a fresh perspective to offer the world. It is our responsibility as the more mature ones: to teach the younger ones so that they don’t make the same mistakes that we did."

"How you handled your adversity amidst an unforgiving public and turned them into admirers is worth noting."

"People evolve, you just have to try something new, and if it fails, then, okay, you learned from it. Try something else."

"It’s a masterclass on converting public humiliation [whether your fault or not] into public respect and admiration."

"Some things God makes easy for you, and some things God makes a little more challenging."

"Hindi naman ibibigay ni God lahat!, (God doesn't give us everything!),You can't have it all!"

"Nobody is your friend until they defend your name in your absence."

"Girl... hindi ka niya hahabulin hangga't di ka umaalis. That's all. (Girl... he won't chase you until you leave.)"

"I'm sure napaka-fulfilling na trabaho na maging ina. Pero para piliting mangyari 'yun or ma-feel na hindi ako parang binigyan ng gift na ganun? It's a blessing from the Lord talaga, nakalagay naman 'yan, children are gift from God. (I'm sure being a mother is a very fulfilling job. But to force that to happen or to feel like I wasn't given such a gift? It's really a blessing from the Lord, it's written there, children are a gift from God.)"

"Ayoko nga ng sikat. Ang hirap-hirap kaya ng sikat. (I don't want to be famous. It's actually very hard to be famous)."

"Hindi naman tayo pare-parehong mga tao. Hindi tayo pare-pareho ng pinagdaanan. (We are not all the same people. We have not gone through the same experiences)."

"On China and COVID-19: So our enemy made a virus on purpose that killed tons of people, broke our economy, broke our brains, let's be honest, then culminated in all of us posting on social media to stop Asian hate."

"Once the Cosby thing happened, I was kind of like, anything I hold dear to me truth-wise could be untrue. I'm literally like, yeah, the moon landing, there's something fishy about that. Like yeah, for sure. I don't know if we landed on the moon, but it is funny to me that the moon landing is really what divides us as a country. You know? I don’t know. But my take on the moon thing is actually that—this is a hot take—I just don’t care. Is that weird? Like, it makes no difference to me if they went or not"

"The right is taking books out of schools. Who cares, dude? That’s a states’ rights thing. That is between the parents and the school. Why do you care what books a kid in another state is reading?"

"On Charlie Kirk: He was as close to not a hypocrite as I've seen in a while. Did he lie about stuff? I don’t know. Was he trying out new personalities and personas for social—I truly don’t know. Did he spread lies? I don't know. And by the way, neither do you, because nobody can prove what a lie is."

"When you're pregnant, you finally start reading ingredients on food. You start caring about yourself by accident, because, you know, you care about the baby. When I got pregnant, I realized how bad I was to myself, how poorly I treated myself. Once I got pregnant, I was like, “Well, I guess I should put a seatbelt on.” You know, “Where is it? Oh.” Like I'm literally putting a seatbelt on for the—it’s so wild that you start having self-respect and caring about yourself only when you're growing another person inside you."